From her vantage point, hidden in the back row, Maya observed the crowd. They admired her photography, the poignant portraits of the elderly. They discussed the lighting, the composition, the stories they evoked. But they didn't know these weren't hers. Her heart thumped a rapid tattoo against her ribs. She was a ghost, invisible, a non-entity. She squeezed her hands into fists, her nails digging into her palms. A wave of nausea swept over her. She wanted to scream, to run.

Emotion: worried

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.02 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion worried. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 worried stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the worried emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the worried vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
worse0.285
S0.279
😰0.277
😣0.269
Worse0.250
Suppressed:
la-0.476
de-0.432
🎉-0.233
happy-0.231
"-0.228